Source: ruby-httpclient Section: ruby Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers Uploaders: Ryan Niebur , Gunnar Wolf Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~), gem2deb, rake, ruby-http-cookie (>= 1.0), ruby-rack Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-httpclient.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-httpclient Homepage: https://github.com/nahi/httpclient Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-ruby XS-Ruby-Versions: all Package: ruby-httpclient Architecture: all XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions} Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ruby-http-cookie (>= 1.0), ca-certificates, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: HTTP client library for ruby httpclient gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. . Features: * methods like GET/HEAD/POST/* via HTTP/1.1. * HTTPS(SSL), Cookies, proxy, authentication(Digest, NTLM, Basic), etc. * asynchronous HTTP request, streaming HTTP request. * by contrast with net/http in standard distribution; o Cookies support o MT-safe o streaming POST (POST with File/IO) o Digest auth o Negotiate/NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate (requires net/htlm module) o NTLM auth for WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate (requires win32/sspi module) o extensible with filter interface o you don't have to care HTTP/1.1 persistent connection (httpclient cares instead of you).